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`JOHN F. MCCANNA, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO MGCORD @c COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

GEARING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ratented April 16, 1907.

T L7/Z whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. MCCANNA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful l Improvements in Gearing, of which the folof the teeth of the gear 11.

lowing is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in gearing, and has particular reference to a novel form of gearing for converting highspeed rotary motion into low-speed rotary or reeiprocatory motion.

The invention consists of the combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter particularly described and then pointed out in the appended claims.

In the .accompanying drawings, which illustrate one embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a sectional view of the gearing on the line 1 1 of Fig. 3, showing the gearing as it may be employed for operating a reciprocating member, such as a pump-piston. F ig.

2 is a face view of the rotatable or driven gear. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on theline 3 3 of Fig. 1, particularly illustrating the fixed gear and the planetary pinion meshing therewith and reducing the speed of the drivingshaft g and Fig. 4 illustrates a detail.

Referring to Fig. 1, 10 indicates a suitable frame or support which consists, in the present instance, of a reservoir designed when the gearing is employed to operate a lubrieating pump or pumps to contain the lubrieating-oil. l

The numeral 11 indicates a fixed gear which in the present'embodiment of the invention takes' the form of a hollow'or cupshaped plug, screwing into a suitable opening in the wall of the reservoir and provided with internal gear-teeth 12. The gear 11 is provided beyond the teeth thereof with an annular extension or collar 13, which has a greater internal diameter than the internal gear and receives and forms a bearing for a rotatable gear 14, having internal teeth 15, the crowns of the teeth being on the same radius as that The gear 14 is cup-shaped and with the fixed gear 11 provides a circular chamber. The gear 14 is provided with a hub 16, the opening of which is eccentric to such gear and receives one end of an eccentric-shaft 17, the other end of which may be supported in a suitable bearing in the reservoir, as shown.

As shown in Fig. 1, the fixed gear 11 is `provided With an outwardly-extending bearingsleeve 18, in which is journaled a shaft 19, the linner end of which is journaled in a recess 20 in the adjacent end of the eccentric 16. The shaft 19 is coaxial with the internal gears 11 and 14, while the eccentric 16 is eccentric to such shaft. The bearing-sleeve 18 is provided with a suitable packing-gland 21 to prevent the escape of lubricant from the reservoir 10. The outer end of the shaft 19 is provided with a suitable pulley 22, to

which motion may be communicated by a y belt or other means driven from any suitable source of power.

The shaft 19, within the chamber provided by the gears 11 and 14,*is cut out and connected by a block 23, such block being offset from the line of the shaft 19 at one side and being bifurcated beyond the other side to provide a pair of arms' 24. A pinion 25 is pivoted between the arms 24, its pivot being eccentric to the shaft 19. This pinion extends beyond the ends of the arms 24 and engages the teeth of the internal gears 11 and 14, while the inner portion of the pinion extends into the cut-out portion of the shaft. The gear 11.with its internal teeth provides a toothed track for the pinion, which, by reason of the rotation of the shaft 19 and its engagement with the fixed gear, has a planetary movement.

In'the resent arrangement the gears 11 and 14, while of the same internal diameter, are provided with a different number of teeth, the gear 11 having twenty-three teeth, while the gear 14 has twenty-four teeth', such teeth being slightly smaller than the teeth of the gear 11. With this ratio the speed of the shaft 19 with reference to that of the eccentric 16 is as twenty-four to one--that is to say, with. each twenty-four rotations of the shaft 19 the eccentric is rotated. once. This ratio may obviously be varied by varying the relative number of teeth of the internal gears 11 and 14. Fog' example, if the gear 11 were provided with twenty-four teeth and the gear 14 with twenty-three the speed of the shaft 19 with reference to the eccentric 16 would be as twenty-three to one. As the relative speed of the shaft and gear 14 depends upon the ratio of the gear 11 to the gear 14, the speed of the gear 14 may obviously be varied by varying the ratios of the im gears. By varying the ratio any desired speed IOO IIO

of the driven number with reference to the driving member may be obtained.

In the present embodiment of the invention the low-speed movement of the eccentric is converted into a reciprocating movement of the piston 26 of a suitable pump located in the reservoir and designed to discharge thereform the lubricant to the bearing' ment of the pinion with the teeth of the fixed gear such pinion is rotated on its axis in a direction the reverse of the shaft 19 and imparts a slow movement to the gear 14 in the same direction as the shaft 1Q, the gear 14 being moved one tooth at each complete rotation of the shaft 19. As the gear 14 is rotated the eccentric moves at the same speed, thereby imparting a slow reciprocating' movement to the element 2 6, in the present instance the pumppiston.

While I have described the invention in connection with Va lubricating-pump, this is merely by way of illustration, and it is not to be understood that the invention is limited thereto.4 It will be obvious that the gearing may be employed in any situation where it is desired to utilize a compact and simple arrangement for converting a high rotary speed to a low rotary or reciprocating movement.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a device of the class described, a

` fixed internal gear having a collar and a rotatable internal gear having a bearing in the said collar, a two-part shaft coaxial with such gears, an offset block connecting the parts of the shaft and provided with a pair of arms, and a pinion pivoted in the arms eccentrically tothe shaft and having a planetary movement in engagement with the fixed gear to drive the rotatable gear at a slower speed than but in the same direction as the shaft.

2. A device for converting high-speed rotary motion 'into low-speed reciprocating motion, comprising a fixed internal gear and a rotatable internal gear, said gears having different numbers of teeth, an eccentric fixed to the rotatable gear for moving a reciprocating element, a two-part driving-shaft coaxial with and journaled in the gears, an offset block connecting the parts of the shaft and bifurcated opposite the offset, and a inion pivoted on the bifurcations of the b ook and having its pivot eccentric to the shaft whereby the pinion has a planetary movement about the shaft in engagement with the lixed gear to impart a relatively slow movement to the rotatable gear.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

lJOHN F. MCOANNA.

Witnesses ARTHUR B. SEIBOLD, ELIZABETH MoLrroR. 

